Jimmy might be a great athlete, but he is not a great tight end (can't block) and is not a great wide reciever (can't beat a true #1 corner). Without Payton putting him in favorable matchups and Brees getting him the ball, he'd be just another great athlete TE with average production like a Jermichael Finley or Jared Cook.

He wants $12 million, go find it somewhere else. We won a Super Bowl with a broken-down Jeremy Shockey as the starting TE and a defense that wasn't even half as good as the one we got now. I'd rather spend that money locking up Jordan, Hicks, Galette and others long-term and start turning this into a run-heavy offense.

to be honest if he walked into the office demanding that contract my first reaction is this kid does not care about the state of the team. next reaction who wants this ### ? get on the phone and start talking asap.

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Re: Jimmy Graham demanding 12 million per season?

Do you know how many good players we could get with 12 million a year. Hell Byrd from Buffalo is no where near 12 million and he shows up. I would let him walk because if we tag him it's only going to pi$$ him off and I don't think he would show up at all. We have TE's that can do the job, put some money in to beef up the O-line. There are even a few really polished TE's in the draft, I'm certain we could get a deep threat reciever or two with that money and have cap space to boot.

Hope you like 9 win seasons and one and done in the playoffs because that's what you will get with so much money invested in so few players. You'll end up with a few stars sorrounded by a bunch of below average players because thats all the cap left will afford. I like Graham and Brees, but those two contracts are super bowl dream crushers.